Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi / Faculty of Health Sciences

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    Physical Activity, Anxiety, Depression, And Coping In Turkish Men And Women During The First Wave Of COVID-19
    (CADERNOS DE SAUDE PUBLICA, 2024-06-29) Filiz, Bijen; Ozyol, Funda Coskun; Guven, Bengu; Korur, Ezel Nur; Yuksel, Yilmaz; Yavuz, Cavit Isik; Ding, Kele; Yang, Jingzhen; Durstine, Larry; Chin, Ming -kai; Demirhan, Giyasettin
    A need exists to better understand the relationships between COVID-19, coping behaviors, physical activity and stress, and COVID-19's impact on way of life. A cross-sectional study design was used to examine adult physical activity, hope, depression, anxiety, and coping status by gender during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to determine the impact of these variables on the coping process. The study also examined the effect of gender on the relation between physical activity and dependent variables. A global survey instrument was used in this study, including 1,400 Turkish adults. This study identified significant gender-based differences regarding physical activity, hope, depression, anxiety, and coping status of adults, although no significant genderbased difference was found regarding hope scores. Furthermore, physical activity directly influenced coping (beta = 0.10), hope (beta = 0.12), and anxiety (beta = -0.08). Hope directly and positively influenced coping (beta = 0.45) and directly and negatively influenced anxiety (beta = -0.25) and depression (beta = -0.28). Moreover, gender did not directly affect physical activity, but it was associated with decreased coping and increased depression and anxiety. Finally, gender had no effect on the relation between physical activity and hope, coping, depression, and anxiety (p > 0.01). These outcomes support the critical importance of physical activity and hope when coping with COVID-19 regardless of gender.
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    Challenges Of Masked Communication In Healthcare And Facilitating Strategies
    (JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC NURSING, 2024-07-22) Demirel, Yuksel
    Wearing a face mask is one of the main means of preventing the transmission of certain respiratory diseases. This measure, combined with social distancing and hand washing, helps to slow the spread and reduce transmission of the virus, especially among people who are expressed as asymptomatic carriers, while causing communication difficulties between patients and healthcare professionals. If strategies to cope with these difficulties are not developed, serious errors may occur in the field of health services. Because the field of health services is one of the service areas where it is vital to maintain communication without interruption. For this reason, the effective performance of the procedures requires that the health personnel understand the messages correctly and appropriately both in their communication with each other and with the patient and that the patients can adequately express their feelings and thoughts to the healthcare professionals. The aim of this study is to reveal the difficulties and facilitating strategies of masked communication in health services during the COVID-19 process. The method of "document scanning-a literature review" was used as a way of data collection in the research. In this direction, the literature dealing with the importance of the face in expressing emotions in face-to-face communication and the difficulties caused by face masks in communication during the COVID-19 epidemic was scanned using keywords and various combinations of these words.
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    The Relationship Between Burnout And Work Engagement Levels Of Nurses And Physiotherapists Working During The Covid-19 Pandemic Period
    (WORK-A JOURNAL OF PREVENTION ASSESSMENT & REHABILITATION, 2024) Gulsen, Mustafa; Ertugrul, Bekir; Taskin, Gulsen; Aytar, Ayca; Genc, Yasemin Kavuncubasi
    BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all health professionals worldwide. This has also influenced their working lives, affecting burnout and work engagement. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to investigate the relationship between burnout and work engagement among nurses and physiotherapists during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted with total 509 nurses and physiotherapists who were working at any of the private, public, or university hospitals from two large and one small cities. A Personal Introduction Form, the Maslach Burnout Scale, and the Work Engagement Scale were used in the study. Frequency, percentage, mean, and Pearson correlation analysis were used for statistical analysis. Necessary ethical approvals were taken for the research. RESULTS: There was a significant, moderate, negative relationship between the average scores of the nurses on the vigor and devotion dimensions and the Work Engagement Scale and their average scores on emotional exhaustion, personal accomplishment, depersonalization dimensions and their average score on the Maslach Burnout Scale (p < 0.05). There was a significant, moderate, negative relationship between the scores of the physiotherapists on the Work Engagement Scale and its dimensions and their average scores on the Maslach Burnout Scale and its dimensions (p < 0.05). CONCLUSION: In our study, it was found that the burnout levels of nurses and physiotherapists had an effect on their work engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic. During and after the COVID-19 process, managers should take measures to reduce the burnout levels of health professionals and increase their level of work engagement.